Includes bibliographical references (pages 623-633) and index

A Home in Europe --- The Making of an Ottoman Officer --- Prelude to a Military Coup --- An Impatient Young Turk --- Adventure in the Desert --- Fighting Disaster --- A Diplomatic Interlude --- A Move to the Front --- Fighting on All Fronts --- Figures in a Fuined Landscape --- Meeting the People --- The Birth of Kemalism --- An Embattled Leader --- A Fighting Diplomat --- Stopping the Greeks --- Victory in War --- Winning Without Fighting --- The End of the Monarchy --- Peace and the Republic --- The End of the Caliphate --- Imposing Law and Order --- Reforms and Repression --- Measured Terror --- The Leader is Always Right --- The Depression --- Table Talk --- Last Battles --- Apotheosis --- Aftermath

This biography of Ataturk aims to strip away the myth to show the complexities of the man beneath. Born plain Mustafa in Ottoman Salonica in 1881, he trained as an army officer but was virtually unknown until 1919, when he took the lead in thwarting the victorious Allies' plan to partition the Turkish core of the Ottoman Empire. He divided the Allies, defeated the last Sultan and secured the territory of the Turkish national state, becoming the first president of the new republic in 1923. He imposed coherence, order and mordernity and in the process, created his own legend and his own cult

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